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Summative Assessment

Nature Detective:  Digging into Research

1. If a zoo keeper came to your classroom, what question could you ask him to help you learn more about bobcats?

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2. Trees are very tall plants with only one stem.  They can be short like a fruit tree or huge like the redwood tree.  Trees help us everyday.  They add oxygen to our planet. We use them to make our homes and food to eat.

Write one questions about trees that was not answered in the paragraph.

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    3.  Place the following items of the Monarch Butterfly life cycle in the correct order:

                 pupa               butterfly             caterpillar                         egg                                 

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3.  __________________________       4.  ________________________________

4.  Your grandmother wants to find information on the following items.  Give her a keyword to that would describe all the items.

   Rose            Daisy

   Tulip                            Petunia              Your keyword   ____________________________

  Use the Table of Contents below to answer questions 5-6.

Contents 

What is a seed?          Page 6

Parts of a seed            Page 7    

How do seed travel?   Page 8

Fruits from seeds        Page 9

5.  Write one keyword you see in the Table of Contents     _______________________

6.  Write one question that could be answered by reading the book above

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7.  A text you find on the shelf has the following information on the cover:

         Mighty Tree      Story and pictures by Dick Gackenbach.

  To whom would you give credit for the drawings?     __________________________

8.  Where in a book do you usually find the author and illustrator listed?

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9.  Which of these features is a part of non-fiction resources?   Circle each one.

                diagrams                                                bold print                                               headings

                charts                                                     graphs                                                captions                    

                drawings                                                photographs                                         titles                   

10.  How does using a graphic organizer help you when you are doing research?

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